Microsoft Word: Banned in the USA

In an interesting turn of events, Seattle PI is reporting that a Texas judge has ordered Microsoft to cease all sales of its famed word processor in the US within 60 days. No, seriously. The injunction came as the result of a patent dispute between Canadian software company i4i and Microsoft regarding the processes with which Word handles XML files. This isn’t the first victory for i4i over the Washingtonian beast either — back in May a court awarded the company $200 million in damages as it found Microsoft had knowingly infringed on the same patent. That judgment is still being appealed and of course Microsoft isn’t going to stop selling Word any time soon as a result of this new injunction. In the end, Redmond will appeal related rulings as long as it can and then it’ll cut a check and be done with the matter. Oh yes, it will be a large check.

Wait OpenOffice just works, and it’s FREE! Can’t have M$ screwing up a great office suite like OpenOffice like they do with everything else they have to purchase cause they CAN’T make anything from scratch.

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Lemme check my care-o-meter.
Nope. Sorry.

Peter

OMG!!11 MICRO$OFT SUCKS!!! LOLZZZ!
Retards.

CoryB

HAHA!

http://www.twitter.com/manmythlegend ManMythLegend

In related news, the Moon has been ordered to stop being bright as the Sun has made a claim stating that the light from the Moon is in fact the Sun’s own light being reflected.

The Moon has 60 days to halt all reflective properties.

Bill

If it wasn’t for this specific Texas county and patent trolls we wouldn’t have this problem.

Oh and Open Office saves in XML too so why isn’t the same patent trolls going after them?

DaFD

I hope to heck that actually happens.
Then eventually this would allow alternate platforms to have a stronger foothold in a more universal ecosystem.

Jeremiah

Microsoft’s monopoly may be evil at best, but the fact of the matter is that most of the world runs on the Office universe, so halting one of their core products would absolutely cripple business, schools, organizations, etc.

Tyson

I don’t think the injunction will stand on appeal the balance test which is required in such a case would probably rule against the TRO on appeal.

The Jackal

lol@manmythlegend!

Deaconclgi

HA!!! Funniest thing all day!

Sam

On Aug 12, 2009 @ 5:37 pm, Stang68 Said:

HAHAHAHAA Apple wins. Oh wait, I use Word on my Mac…

I agree with Stang68… Apple is WINS than microsoft is SUCKER!!!!!!! and microsoft is DOWN forever because this NEVER perfect, most problem.

Apple MOST PERFECT FOREVER!!!!

DailyAddict

Doesn’t it count for something that they used Word to type out the legal documents? If not then it’s just incedibly hilarious and ironic.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

Jeremiah

@Sam: Wow, if you’re anything to go by concerning Mac users, then they have ridiculously terrible grammar and have no grasp of it whatsoever.

johnbo

If only the guy that invented dos was justly compensated for his efforts…

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ZacMan

I am shocked! MS stealing? Noooooo . . .

But of course they will write a big ol’ check and all will be fine and dandy. As mentioned earlier, removing Office in that fashion will effectively crash the business industry in approximately 45.738 mins.

Life goes on . . .

Joe

Was this the handiwork of Project Mayhem and Tyler Durden?

Perhaps. Or maybe M$ just can’t get their sticky little fingers away from other peoples work.

CarBob

Does this mean that more people will be using the ‘WordPerfect’ Office Suite which includes an excellent word processing program?

If not the Suite, then the above mentioned stand alone ‘WordPerfect’ word processing application.

Just wondering.

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Mike

Just save word files to something else. Put a converter available for free. Call it a day.

I use open office but I must admit that if I had the money to spare, I would use Microsoft office suite.

Also Microsoft rules. If it did suck, we would all be using mac or some linux os.